Senate House Library

🚨 BANK HOLIDAY HOURS 🚨 Senate House Libra will be open this Monday 9.45am to 5pm. Different from our usual hours, so plan accordingly!

📚 As part of the Library Transformation Programme, we are investing in the development of our e-resource collections to better support primary research 💡Share your opinion on potential resources in our e-resources survey - bit.ly/4j11ztN

Alexander Pope’s edition of Shakespeare first appeared in April 1775, with a second edition in 1728. Pope’s introductory essay was noteworthy. His editorial skill was not. See this & multiple early editions on Shakespeare in the @SenateHouseLib collections.

Do you know the John the Baptist magic trick? Divided by Faith Special Subject historians headed to the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature @SenateHouseLib. Thanks to seeing Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), they won't get fooled again! @RoyalHolloway

Whether you’re picking up a book for the first time in years or you’ve just had a busy week, these short reads are a great way to ease back into books 📖🤍

These 'quick reads' ones are from our Wellbeing Collection 💚 Perfect for winding down, taking a mindful moment, or simply easing back into reading at your own pace.

✨ It’s #WorldBookNight! ✨We’re joining the celebration by sharing our team’s top quick reads & hidden gems from the Senate House Library collections (see thread)

@SenateHouseLib will be closed for Easter weekend from Friday 18 April to Monday 21 April - we have reduced opening hours on Thursday 17 April and Tuesday 22 April. We’ll respond to all enquiries as soon as possible. We hope you all have a relaxing break, Happy Easter! 🐇🐣

Yesterday we invited migration minister, @SeemaMalhotra1 to tour the ‘In the Grip of Change’ exhibition at @SenateHouseLib, led by @EsiCox. The exhibition explores the Caribbean’s path to independence and the experiences of its British diaspora. It's open until April 12th.

🗣️ Listen to award-winning poet @JennyMitchellGo's poem ‘The Caribbean Grip’. 💬 The poem was created in response to Senate House Library’s exhibition ‘In the Grip of Change: the Caribbean and its British diaspora’ 👉 Learn more: london.ac.uk/about/services…

🗓️ On 27 March 1625, Charles I became king 👑 A week later on 3 April, John Donne - then Dean of St Paul’s - preached his first sermon before King Charles at St James’s, and it was published soon afterwards It is one of several 17th century titles by Donne at @SenateHouseLib 📖

@TheLondonLib Fascinating chat with Senate House Library team, University of London. Opened 1877, it's the centre of 18 unique federated institutions, beautiful art deco reading rooms, & public exhibits (currently on people of the Caribbean) london.ac.uk/about/services… @SenateHouseLib @LondonU

Fabulous visit to @SenateHouseLib for the Early English Vernacular Manuscripts class @kingsartshums @kcl_medieval Piers Plowman, Aucinleck, etc

What happens to our digital content? BBC Radio Tech Life asks Dr Naomi Wells at the Digital Humanities Research Hub as the Hub's Born Digital conference kicks off. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3… (Interview starts at 7 minutes into the programme.) @bbcworldservice

Today on @BBCr4today Prof Sarah Churchwell discusses the contemporary relevance of the novel 'The Great Gatsby' by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald on the 100th anniversary of its publication. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… Starts at 2h53m (5 minutes).

King James I died #OnThisDay 400 years ago. From a literary viewpoint, he was our most prolific king 👑 Here’s his famous 'Daemonologie' (1603) about witches, from the @SenateHouseLib collections. It was a source for Shakespeare’s Macbeth 🔮📖

#OnThisDay 200 years ago, Gilbert and Sullivan’s first comic opera, Trial by Jury, was performed 🎭 This advertisement for one of their later works, lampooning the Pre-Raphaelites, is from Victorian texts of their plays at @SenateHouseLib 📖

Senate House Library researcher Angharad Eyre writes about the longstanding relationship between the University of London and the University of the West Indies. london.ac.uk/news-events/bl…

⌛ #OnThisDay in 1775, the American War of Independence was brewing... 📖 Here is Edmund Burke’s 300-year-old speech to Parliament, urging that Britain co-operate with American instead of taxing it. Find 18th-century editions of many Burke discourses at @SenateHouseLib